Fast-paced and absorbing, 24 Days lets readers follow every twist and turn as Smith and Emshwiller expose an audacious scheme to hide Enrons failings...

It tells how each new round of questions was met with silence, stonewalling, or exquisitely parsed obfuscation as the $60 billion trading colossus stubbornly denied the existence of a problem, and in return the reporters received sarcasm (longtime Enron chairman and CEO Kenneth Lay referred to Smith as sneaky for her persistent questioning), accusations of personal bias, or outright lies.